UN relocates nearly 90,000 Sudanese refugees to camps away from Chad border
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at 03:21AM
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Almost 90,000 refugees fleeing the war-torn Darfur region in western
Sudan for Chad have been successfully moved into one of eight United
Nations camps away from the dangerous border as the rainy season starts
to set in. UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
estimate at least 150,000 Sudanese have fled their homeland for
neighbouring Chad since early last year, when fighting first broke out
in Darfur between the Sudanese Government and two rebel groups. [more]
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